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' Figure 1 is a top view, looking down'from above, g .having the lid ortop removed to show the arrangeinerzt of the apparatus 'within the tank.

Figure 2- is a sideelevation of the sume, having improved -WHOM r T.TMAY CONCERNE Be it lknown that I, JOHN S. S'rnPnnxsoN, of have inventeda new and useful improsiement in the declare the following to be a fulland exact description of Athe same,

l lv ,i A @auch tetes .strat time JoHN s. sTarnENS.oN, oir CLEVELAND;onto.

Letters Potent No. 63,3213, dated M'ttrch 2G, 1857.

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Apparatus forCarburetting Air arid Gas;

which are made part of this specification, andi'in whichapparatus.

Figure 3 is a side view of themechaniszn by -which theimprovemerits areoperated.A Figure 4 is a detachedjview of one of the air-tubes Hl,undone ofthe siphon-tubesg T. Figure 5 is a detached view of the springG, box K,an 1 wheel P5.

Letter A representsthe agitating-wheel, N the fan-wheel,wlxich` forcesthe air into the tank. 'W is the bos which encloses the fan F is a pipe,through which the carburetted air4 passes out oil-the tank.4

Similar letters offreference indicate corresponding parts in the severalgures.

My invention consists in. a novel and very. simple method of agitatingcarboniferous iiuids within and by the lmeans -of which the airorA ingpurposes for making light.` l i lfwill rst describe the .constructionofthe apparatus and after Y 'made oi' tin or any suitable material, havingthe form ot' a parallelopipedon, the length being` double th'et of thehalf the Width, end.ma.y hefmade of---nny-required eine, the diameter ofvthe The shaft S of the wheel A is journalled in ently to permit thewheel to turn clear; the

width, m1 the heightome mias wheel A being about-equal to. half thollength of the boxror tank. the sides ot' thebox at a distance from the,end and bottoni suic wheel A being in ,on-e end of the box, leaves roomfoi thie'funnel or pipo Ein the other en'd. The funnel F is a pipe ofthe large ut a point nearly over the sha-ft S, and encloses the wheel N,having holes or openings in the top and bottom, v

Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga,- anri State of Ohio,

and I do herehy reference being had to the accompanying showing 'a planofua tank embodying my improvement,-

heside of the tank removed,`s hcwing a side'view of the a tank,

wards its operation.' The tank is a boa conical shape, the small end'passing down through the bottom of the tank, and fastened in the same;end, which is open, stands above the middle of 'the tank. A Wis 'a boxattached to the side ofthe tank through'ivhich the air Vor gas passesinto the pipe H, and through the Apipe and tubes H1, H2, and 4H3 into-the keyvpost E, to which the spring-,is attached,- and on which thlocked to freely between them; the plates-are fastened togetherby thinslats or cotton or and lying flat on the rims to rotate,

being in gear with the pinion P2 on the shaft Il, causes the shaft 4torotate,

being in gear with the pinion P revolving of which forces ,the air intothe tank.

Athrough which motion is'impnrted from the spring the 'shaft-E und box Kin the usual manner of att wool between them, and pla'ecd at equaldietances'from each over the'ends of which the air passes into thetaule.

thus rotating the wheel A, which is iouutod on the shaft S on the insideof the tank.

on the shaft I,'causes the 'shaft to rotate nd of tho.smali shaft I; l?lis a gear-wheel on the shaft wheel 'on .the shaft I2, which gears withthe wheel'l. P3 .is a P* is a pinion on the shaft S,i`ngear with thelarge gear-wheel P". 'is box, which contains the spring mounted ou theshaft e spring G- is wound up the spring is attached .or aching aclock-spring, and is wound up by u key-v and the operation of the springis the same as that of a clock. The wheel A is composed r at a distanceusunder suiicient to permit the air to circulatel strips of thininetallaid together, having other round the periphery 'of the wheel, of theplates, are fastened to the same, thus` forming the wheel A. Letter H isa pipe through which the air passes from .the box W to the tubes H1, H2,andHa, tank. Letters T `'ll T3 are Siphon-tubes, i

Having thus'described the construction of the apparatus, 'spr-ing beingwound up communicates power to the wheel I, contains the spring; rotateswith the same. I

and through the tubes into-the I will proceed to describeits operation:The which, being mounted on the box or drum K, which being in'gear withthe pinion P on the shaft S, causes the shaft Thel wheel l?3 alsorotating the wheel Pl, which, ,.thus rotating the fuuwhcel N, the By thearrangement of'gear-wheels of diierent diamcters to the wheels A and N,the numberlof rvolutions is multiplied, causing 'the wheels A and N tomuke n. greater number of revolutions in the some time than is made bythe driving-wheel P5, which is attached to the 'drum K, this arrangementbeing-necessnry in *order t`o malte the wheels A und 'N operte as longas possible at euch winding of the spring. The curbon'ifeious fluid isput' into the tank through o7 hole in the tol-J or lid; the tankshouldbe filled with the fluid hbout half full nt cnchllling, l

but not so full as to run into thc pipe l", or cover the topsot'. th'cSiphon-tubes T. Thev lower parts of thwheel A being immersed in the'luid, and being revolved, agitato :1nd curry up the-fluid into'the4 niror gus, the sides l of the platos or-lnnges, and sluts or strips whichextend crosswisc from one plate to the other, forming a. greater dryingsurface in the oir than would bepresented by the top surface of thefluid; the plates und sluts, or piencs of which the wheel is composed,being very thin, :und the wheel being so constructed that only the edgesof the plates and sluts meet with resistance in passing through thefluid, .therefore requiring butlittl'c powcrfto operate it. The wheelmaybe mode like a'. drum by soldering o rim on the periphery of thepistes instead of the, sluts, thus making n. tight drum, which willnotndinit thc lluid' to its inside; the outside being wet withtheifluid, would present u lorge drying surface in the'uir or gas, whichcauses n rapid evaporation oi the fluid. The air or ges passes into ythetank through the box W, pipe H,'fn'ul tubes H., H2, and HJ, blowingstrongly over the ends of the Siphon-tubes, drowsihe fluid up throughthem, und blows it,oil` the ends ofthe siphonftubes, scattering it intheoir, illing the tank with (the fluid in inist or spray, thusthoroughly corbnretting the air or gas while l passing through the tank.',.llho `ziir thus cnrburctted passes ont of tho tank through the pipeF.4 i

Hoving thus described my invention, what I claim :is new, nnddesircto'secure by Letters Putentis- The combination of' the tub-es H and Twiththen-gituting-whecl A und fun-wheel N 'and funnclpipel", ton

structed us described, und arranged to operato in the manner 'set forthg y v ,A JOHN S. STEPHENSON. Witnesses: v

,G.'R. Somma, WM. F. GoowIN.

